Valentine’s Day is coming up and we’re giving away one free copy of The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes to one lucky reader. Author of Healing the Sacred Divide, Dream Theatres of the Soul and The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth, Jean Benedict Raffa offers a self-guided journey to spiritual maturity in her latest book, The Soul’s Twins. Released by Red Feather Mind Body Spirit, an imprint of Schiffer Books, in November 2020, Raffa’s new book draws on Jungian psychology and wisdom traditions from world religions. Jean Benedict Raffa offers a new theory of heightened consciousness and compassion. This book offers an overview of archetypes which embody five basic instincts: nurturance, activity, reflection, sex, and creativity. The drive for self-preservation is associated with solar energy expressed through masculine archetypes and the drive for species-preservation is associated with lunar energy and feminine archetypes. Readers are invited to take a self-assessment, the Partnership Profile, to better understand themselves, the imbalances and challenges they face, and opportunities for exploring specific archetypes in their own lives. There are two parts to questionnaire called the Partnership Profile. In Part I you answer questions about eight archetypes: four lunar and four solar. These represent differing ways your soul’s twins work together to satisfy your instinctual needs. Part II assesses your life satisfaction. Your score on this self-administered questionnaire will help you understand how the archetypes which make up your lunar and solar energies influence your personality, way of…

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The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes by Jean Benedict Raffa releases today, November 17, from Schiffer Books. A former television producer and college professor, Dr. Jean Raffa changed directions in midlife to discover and write about her passions. Informed by over 30 years of psychological and spiritual study, her books and teachings guide others to growth and self-empowerment. Humanity today is plagued by a loss of meaning and alienation from self and others. The result is unprecedented levels of divorce, depression, anxiety, addictions, suicide, and crime. Because societal institutions have failed to resolve these and other everyday problems, it is now the task of each individual to heal and unite their divided self: body and spirit, conscious and unconscious, feminine and masculine. Drawing on Jungian psychology and wisdom traditions from world religions, Dr. Raffa offers a self-guided journey to heightened self-awareness and compassion for oneself and others. A self-assessment tool called the Partnership Profile gives readers a personalized status report on their inner forces, including the maturity of four feminine archetypes, four masculine archetypes, and a newly emerging archetype of egalitarian partnership. This awareness, combined with suggested practices, empowers readers to address their imbalances and create the lives for which they yearn. This guide for all who desire greater self-fulfillment and freedom to be themselves describes four masculine and four feminine archetypes in everyone. Watch the book trailer here. Reviewer Linsey Stevens, editor of Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling, writes, “The Soul’s Twins is incredibly well…